Thursday, January 26th, 2017

As the Columbia Journalism Review’s letter noted, access to the president is “preferable, but not critical”. For instance, Slate details just how awful Donald Trump’s first network television interview as president was. His aggressive ignorance was on full display, and it’s incredibly distressing. Meanwhile, GQ notes how exhausting it is to follow each new day’s outrages coming from the Oval Office.

It’s easy to laugh at this, both because you appreciate farce and because you need to do something to mask the pain…